Final Ramblings
Final Ramblings
Listening to "Every Woman In The World" by Air Supply
So many people, many whom I don't even know, many others who I only know on a casual basis have told me not to hang up my camera. Well I'm still not sure, since right now I still don't have a vision - and really, what I have in terms of equipment really limits me right now. I don't even own a good zoom lens! That is one reason why all my pictures have been on the wide-angle side else up close pictures for so long.
I do continue to blog, on an infrequent basis and my new blog is a rather "anonymous" one on LJ where I write vaguely, abstractly and is of completely different flavour from the way I wrote this one. I guess no one reads it now and maybe once again, my LJ can be relegated to the blog it was meant to be - an honest open outlet of expressionism. I don't write sensationalistic stories of my life in the most nonsense college, and well, I tend to write it even more seriously than for the (past) "philosophical posts" that I jot down once in a while here. To add that most of the stuff is really personal. So if you ever come across my LJ, well, avoid leaving comments that identify me okay?
No longer do I post pictures on my new blog. I've discovered the simple joys of putting up a picture a day (PAD as pbase calls it) on to one of the LiveJournal communities for local photographers. A few of my pictures I've posted there have been quite well received. The latest one that I've put up there, however, is not doing so well though. Its being beaten flat by another picture of St. Andrew's Cathedral. So that's quite sad - no vision = bad pictures. I might cook up 1 good picture out of every 100 shutter releases, perhaps maybe out of 1000 - if a stroke of creativity comes upon me. Yet when I come back from photo-shoots, I realise that very few to almost none of the pictures can be considered "average" in any sense. So that's quite discouraging too.
I still go out on photoshoots, on a limited basis. I no longer come back with 3 to 600 images. Instead, nowadays I prefer just to stand or sit in one spot and create perhaps 30 to 40 pictures and then call it a day. Baby steps. Taking things slow and easy. No rush. Its been good to be on blogger, yet I guess that I can safely say that I've almost weaned myself off from even entering my userid and password at blogger.com. This blog's original purpose, was to actually just keep in touch with my mei, and her blog for me to keep in touch with her over a vast expanse of distance. Along the way, her blog became increasingly abstract, and mine increasingly nonsensical. As Gabriel puts it. "Everyone likes to read the AC stories". Or perhaps, whatever semblance of a "Love Life" in the most nonsense college. Seriously, there are far many other AC guys from my batch who would so a far superior job sharing about their love-life than a guy like me who used to hang around in the #LIL channel in irc too often.
Photography by Nico Iskandar
Well I guess that it is no longer necessary to have a blog to keep in touch with mei, since she's now safely back in Singapore. Time has flown us by very quickly from the days that I could see her maybe once every six months or so. Sharing a part of my life online, perhaps made up for the lack of face to face interaction. A two hours chat with her is probably worth a hundred blog entries I write here. Human interaction cannot be passed forth from a computer screen - no matter how idealistic that might sound. Its been good. I started blogging on 30th April 2003. I think it would be nice to just put in one more symbolic entry on the 30th of April 2005. To put in final closure after two years worth of ramblings. I guess that too many people read my blog today. Not that its a bad thing, then again, digging up the archives.... is... argh.
To find my blog on LiveJournal, which is still viewable to the public and not limited to any "friends-only" list. Just go and search for my pictures in one of the local photographer communities. I have a weird feeling people already land on both - but that doesn't matter. One might be taken in for a rude shock though, as you read into the contents of the "new blog". Its back to square one - honest sharing. Other than this, I think I have nothing more to say.
Listening to "Every Woman In The World" by Air Supply
So many people, many whom I don't even know, many others who I only know on a casual basis have told me not to hang up my camera. Well I'm still not sure, since right now I still don't have a vision - and really, what I have in terms of equipment really limits me right now. I don't even own a good zoom lens! That is one reason why all my pictures have been on the wide-angle side else up close pictures for so long.
I do continue to blog, on an infrequent basis and my new blog is a rather "anonymous" one on LJ where I write vaguely, abstractly and is of completely different flavour from the way I wrote this one. I guess no one reads it now and maybe once again, my LJ can be relegated to the blog it was meant to be - an honest open outlet of expressionism. I don't write sensationalistic stories of my life in the most nonsense college, and well, I tend to write it even more seriously than for the (past) "philosophical posts" that I jot down once in a while here. To add that most of the stuff is really personal. So if you ever come across my LJ, well, avoid leaving comments that identify me okay?
No longer do I post pictures on my new blog. I've discovered the simple joys of putting up a picture a day (PAD as pbase calls it) on to one of the LiveJournal communities for local photographers. A few of my pictures I've posted there have been quite well received. The latest one that I've put up there, however, is not doing so well though. Its being beaten flat by another picture of St. Andrew's Cathedral. So that's quite sad - no vision = bad pictures. I might cook up 1 good picture out of every 100 shutter releases, perhaps maybe out of 1000 - if a stroke of creativity comes upon me. Yet when I come back from photo-shoots, I realise that very few to almost none of the pictures can be considered "average" in any sense. So that's quite discouraging too.
I still go out on photoshoots, on a limited basis. I no longer come back with 3 to 600 images. Instead, nowadays I prefer just to stand or sit in one spot and create perhaps 30 to 40 pictures and then call it a day. Baby steps. Taking things slow and easy. No rush. Its been good to be on blogger, yet I guess that I can safely say that I've almost weaned myself off from even entering my userid and password at blogger.com. This blog's original purpose, was to actually just keep in touch with my mei, and her blog for me to keep in touch with her over a vast expanse of distance. Along the way, her blog became increasingly abstract, and mine increasingly nonsensical. As Gabriel puts it. "Everyone likes to read the AC stories". Or perhaps, whatever semblance of a "Love Life" in the most nonsense college. Seriously, there are far many other AC guys from my batch who would so a far superior job sharing about their love-life than a guy like me who used to hang around in the #LIL channel in irc too often.
Photography by Nico Iskandar
Well I guess that it is no longer necessary to have a blog to keep in touch with mei, since she's now safely back in Singapore. Time has flown us by very quickly from the days that I could see her maybe once every six months or so. Sharing a part of my life online, perhaps made up for the lack of face to face interaction. A two hours chat with her is probably worth a hundred blog entries I write here. Human interaction cannot be passed forth from a computer screen - no matter how idealistic that might sound. Its been good. I started blogging on 30th April 2003. I think it would be nice to just put in one more symbolic entry on the 30th of April 2005. To put in final closure after two years worth of ramblings. I guess that too many people read my blog today. Not that its a bad thing, then again, digging up the archives.... is... argh.
To find my blog on LiveJournal, which is still viewable to the public and not limited to any "friends-only" list. Just go and search for my pictures in one of the local photographer communities. I have a weird feeling people already land on both - but that doesn't matter. One might be taken in for a rude shock though, as you read into the contents of the "new blog". Its back to square one - honest sharing. Other than this, I think I have nothing more to say.
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